PLECS
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| Developer(s) | Plexim |
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| Initial release | 2002 |
| Operating system | Mac OS X, Windows, Linux |
| Platform | Standalone or Simulink |
| Available in | English, Japanese |
| Type | Simulation software |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
PLECS (Piecewise Linear Electrical Circuit Simulation) is a software tool for system-level simulations of electrical circuits developed by Plexim. It is especially designed for power electronics but can be used for any electrical network.
The program Simulink is ideally suited for the simulation of controls. Therefore, Simulink is also a convenient tool for the design of closed loop controlled electrical systems. PLECS enhances Simulink with the capability to simulate electrical circuits directly. The user can simply enter a circuit as a schematic of electrical components. At Simulink block level the circuit is represented as a subsystem, so the user can build controls and other non-electrical elements around it and take full advantage of the Simulink environment and its toolboxes.
The concept of integration into Simulink has the advantage that only the part of the system in which electrical units are of interest needs to be modeled as an electrical circuit. The simulation of all non-electrical parts such as controls and mechanics should be done in Simulink.
MATLAB can be employed to compute circuit parameters and to post process and visualize the simulation results.
There is also a standalone version of PLECS that allows simulation of electrical circuits and control systems directly within the PLECS package. The standalone version uses GNU Octave as its numerical engine in place of MATLAB.
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